Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] binaries

From:

Taylor R Campbell

Subject:

Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] binaries

Date:

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:30:55 +0000

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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:44:36 -0500
From: Dan Starr <address@hidden>
QUESTION: When using the Portable C version, is it necessary at all to
install a binary first? I take it that the Portable C simply
overwrites it if its there, no?
You need a binary installation to bootstrap it from scratch (i.e.
CVS), but not from the distribution tarball. The former involves
running the compiler to generate C files from Scheme files; the latter
already includes the necessary C files.
QUESTION: How should I best save my own binaries? Should I do the
whole "make install" and then save the lib/ and bin/ directories? Is
there a shell in there already that does this?
We use the `v7/etc/make-*-files' scripts in CVS to build the clean
distribution tarballs. When testing things from CVS involving
bootstrapping, I install into some random destination directory with
`make install DESTDIR=...'.
Having done this, would you appreciate a PowerPC build, or a
MacBook build? Would be a piece of cake.
Actually, we already have them... (I told 'em we already got one!
*pfftphthtph*) We don't yet have a Leopard build, but that's
primarily because I have yet to install Leopard, and I'm mildly
paranoid about rushing to OS upgrades.